Secret Life of Stories - From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We ReadPaperback
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories,…
Specifikacia Secret Life of Stories - From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We ReadPaperback
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains.In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael B rub tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through